{"id":148733,"date":"2023-01-16T15:39:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T14:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=148733"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:26:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:26:36","slug":"knowledge-security-helpdesk-receives-almost-150-queries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2023\/01\/16\/knowledge-security-helpdesk-receives-almost-150-queries\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge Security Helpdesk receives almost 150 queries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Which scientists can we work with and how careful should we be? Over the course of almost 12 months, the Knowledge Security Helpdesk received 148 questions.<\/p>\n

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One year ago, the government launched a Helpdesk<\/a> intended to help universities en research institutions with all of their knowledge security queries. By 21 December, 148 questions had been logged. Forty were about international collaboration with a knowledge institution or a company and another 39 were about collaboration with a specific researcher.<\/p>\n

In a letter<\/a> sent to the House of Representatives at the end of December, Education Minister Robbert Dijkgraaf indicates that in many cases the submitter already has some doubts about the collaboration, but \u201cturns to the helpdesk for the information they need to make a final decision\u201d.<\/p>\n

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A total of 89 questions were about collaboration with partners in China (52), Russia (21) and Iran (16). The institutions need information about current sanctions, for example, and some have concerns about dual use: research that could unintentionally be used for military purposes.<\/p>\n\n\t

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